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jwharris28
Posted 2015-01-23 11:28 AM (#9353 - in reply to #9351)
Subject: Re: The Definitive 1950s Reading Challenge		Quote Reply



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I used to use a slide-rule in the late 60s and early 70s. I remember getting permission in math classes to be allowed 2 decimals of accuracy on homework and tests. But for the life of me I can't remember how to use them now. I haven't seen a slide rule in forty years.

The amazing thing to me about then and now, is the immense lack of knowledge those people lived with. They really had no idea what was coming, even with the help of science fiction. I can remember reading astronomy books back in the early 1960s that were published in the 1950s. The Hubble telescope, and all the other wonders of astronomy and robots to the planets has caused an immense explosion in awareness of the universe. Hell, they didn't know about multiple galaxies until the late 1920s.

All of which begs the question. What aren't we seeing that everyone will know about in the 2060s?

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